Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How Former NBA Star Al Harrington Is Building A $100 Million Team Of Black Cannabis Entrepreneurs. By Will Yakowicz / Forbes
How the NBA got serious about mental health. By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Kyrie Irving vs. Celtics fans: Finger of blame to both in NBA playoffs. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today
MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance Joins Fight Against Russia In Ukraine: ‘I’m Done Talking.’ By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘Democracy will wither’: Barack Obama outlines perils of unregulated big tech in sweeping speech. By Kari Paul / The Guardian
The Herschel Walker Senate Campaign Is an Insult to Black People. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Republicans Look To Cut Off Legal Paths To Challenge Partisan And Racial Gerrymandering. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Patrick Lyoya’s Family Demands Answers After Fatal Police Shooting. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
Karen Bass Is Clashing With Allies on the Left Over Policing. By Jack Ross / The New Republic
Harris pushes to make Black maternal health a national priority. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
How Gentrification in Washington Changed Local Black Political Power. By Steven Overly, Delece Smith-Barrow, Katy O’Donnell and Ming Li / Politico
Pew poll: Being Black is central to sense of identity for most Black Americans. By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN
Dr. William F. Tate IV is the First African American to lead LSU. By Jamal Watson / Diverse Issues in Higher Education
What Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Say About Black Suffering. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
Donald Trump and a Good Friday warning against far-right Christian nationalism. By Rev Nathan Empsall / NBC News
Pope Francis apologized for the harm done to First Nations peoples, but what does a pope’s apology mean? Annie Selak / The Conversation
Grand Rapids pastors mobilize in wake of fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya. By Kathryn Post / RNS
Imagine a Bible With No Moses, No Story of the Exodus. By Sharon Brown / NYT
A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended. By Eric Herschtal / The New Republic
Lessons of the Radical Republicans: Race, revolution and Reconstruction. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
America, Goddam. Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice. By Treva B. Lindsey.
Danyel Smith Tells the History of Black Women in Pop Music. By Emily Lordi / The New Yorker
Black Music Sunday: Let’s celebrate Easter (and a big anniversary) with Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Mississippi Masala: Mira Nair on making Denzel Washington the hottest he’s ever been. By Dan Kois / Slate
It’s Been 75 Years, And People Still Don’t Give Jackie Robinson His Respect. By Law Ware / HuffPost
Honoring the Past by Focusing on the Future. By Andrea Williams / NYT
